Senior Software Engineer - Video Platform

<div class="content-intro"><h2 style="font-family: GothamBold,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #662d91;">Teamwork makes the stream work.</h2> <p> </p> <h3 style="font-family: GothamBold,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><strong>Roku is changing how the world watches TV</strong></h3> <p>Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and we've set our sights on powering every television in the world. Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. Our mission is to be the TV streaming platform that connects the entire TV ecosystem. We connect consumers to the content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers unique capabilities to engage consumers.</p> <p>From your first day at Roku, you'll make a valuable - and valued - contribution. We're a fast-growing public company where no one is a bystander. We offer you the opportunity to delight millions of TV streamers around the world while gaining meaningful experience across a variety of disciplines.</p> <p> </p></div><p><strong><span data-contrast="none">About the team</span></strong> <br> <br><span data-contrast="none">You will be part of the Roku Video Platform Engineering team and responsible for building the next-generation video services for the Roku Cloud TV Platform.</span> <br> <br><strong><span data-contrast="none">About the role</span></strong> <br><br><span data-contrast="none">Roku pioneered TV streaming and continues to innovate and lead the industry. The Roku Channel has us well-positioned to help shape the future of streaming. Continued success relies on investing in the Roku Cloud TV Platform, so we deliver a high-quality streaming TV experience at a global scale.</span> <br><span data-contrast="none">In this role, you will work on key video services projects around video ingestion, encoding, VoD/live-linear, Server Side Ads Insertion, and Video QoS, with the goal of delivering a best-in-class streaming TV experience across all Roku devices. The projects that you will work on will impact millions of Roku users around the world. All along, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with key product engineering stakeholders across Roku engineering teams, and lead the design of our video services platform.</span> <br><span data-contrast="none">The ideal candidate will have endless curiosity and can pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution. You should be a gritty problem solver and self-starter who can drive programs with the product and commercial teams within Roku and across external strategic partner organisations. The successful candidate will display a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs.</span> <br> <br><strong><span data-contrast="none">What you will be doing</span></strong></p> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="none">Design and implement highly scalable, and reliable web-scale applications</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="none">Translate functional specifications into logical, component-based technical designs</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335551550":0,"335551620":0,"335557856":16316664,"335559685":420,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0}"> </span></li> <li><span data-contrast="none">Key technical contributor to the design and implementation of core software backend components of video services platform</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335551550":0,"335551620":0,"335557856":16316664,"335559685":420,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0}"> </span></li> <li><span data-contrast="none">Write and review code, evaluate architectural tradeoffs for performance and security for high-performance, and high-concurrency video infrastructure applications</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335551550":0,"335551620":0,"335557856":16316664,"335559685":420,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0}"> </span></li> <li><span data-c ... (truncated, view full listing at source)